OminousOrange

Prohibiting surveillance and stopping manipulation of a population are not the same thing.

While it's a Firefox fork, Ironfox works great for me.

Tubular is a fork of NewPipe that includes SponsorBlock.

Another option is to support the creators you enjoy by giving through their preferred donation platform. Even a small donation likely provides more support than a few watches with ads or premium on.

I block ads on everything I'm able to and donate through Patreon or other platforms instead.

You can use frontends like FreeTube or Tubular (mobile) to bypass ads and not have any profit (or data) going to the Alphabet machine. Both can have SponsorBlock too.